Information On Magazine Publishers

Future PLC

Future plc is a media company, the sixth highest ranked in the UK. It was founded as ‘Future Publishing’ in Somerset, 1985 by Chris Anderson. The current chairman of future plc is Peter Allen and the Chief Executive Officer is Zillah Byng-Thorne. Future PLC produce magazines such as ‘Xbox: The Official Magazine’, ‘Windows 7 Help & Advice’ and ‘Practical Photoshop’. From this information alone you can tell that the genre of magazine they publish is technology/gadgets.

The audience of people that read Future PLC published magazines are predominantly male. They’re people who are interested in producing music and music technology, people who are interested in the latest gadgets and technology, and creative people who are interested in photography and design.

BBC Magazines    

The famous magazines produced by BBC Magazines are ‘Radio Times’, ‘Good Food’, ‘Top Gear Magazine’ and ‘match of the day’. BBC magazines are also well known for publishing a lot of magazines aimed at children. Some children magazines publish by BBC magazines include ‘Doctor Who’, ‘Cbeebies Weekly’, ‘Bob the Builder’ and ‘National Geographic Kids’.   

The majority of money made by BBC Magazines is from magazines targeted at children. This is due to the large amount of them that they produce and because both children and their parents will be interested in them reading magazines.

Bauer Media Group

Bauer Media Group is a large European-based media company, headquartered in Hamburg, Germany that manages a portfolio of more than 600 magazines. One of the most famous magazines published by Bauer Media Group and certainly the most famous music magazine published by them is ‘Q magazine’. As well publishing Q magazine, they’re also involved in muliti-platform productions such as ‘Q TV and radio’ and also the ‘Q awards’. Q is not the only music magazine published by Bauer, they also publish other well-known music magazines such as Kerrang and MOJO.

The majority of the magazines are music related. However, alongside the music magazines, Bauer also publish a famous monthly film magazine named ‘Empire’ and magazines for people interested in cars and motorbike, ‘Motor Cycle News’ and  ‘Parker's Car Guide’ are the two most famous examples of the transport magazines they publish. As well as these they publish magazines for people interested in hobbies such as bird watching, digital photography and gardening.        

The target audience of magazines published by Bauer is very varied due to the large number of magazines they publish. However, they don’t make children magazines, meaning the majority of the target audience would be over the age of eighteen.